Engaging brain before engaging outsourcing
If you have not read Shampa’s post below I encourage all of you to read it. I would like to point out a few newish developments on the software side. First of all my information on outsourcing prices is from about two years ago. As most of you know the dollar has taken a significant [...]
Pssst… How to keep your international team together
Hmm… I remember the bad old days and maybe some of you are still living tlhem, getting up early or staying late to call some foreign country..
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“Friends Don’t Let Friends do Outsourcing”
I have a friend (let’s call him Andy) who used to work for me and was a good engineer. He subsequently became VP Engineering at an outsourced software development company overseas. I have another friend (let’s call him Don) who also worked with me at a large software company in the sales group; we went [...]
Building Trust in Distant Teams
Hi everyone, this is my first actual blog on this website. I wanted to talk with you about the issue of trust in distant teams. Let me start by telling you that as a former psycho-therapist, I often dealt with the issues besetting people in relationships both at home and at work. Trust – that [...]


